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Helping the Financial Sector Deliver Secure and Modern Infrastructure through Regulation

Jul 10, 2025 By Sean Tilley In 11:11 Systems
In 2024, ransomware continues to be the most prevalent form of cyber-attack, affecting three out of four organisations, according to Veeam. The increasing frequency and sophistication of these attacks are driven by easy access to ransomware kits on the dark web and the significant profits cybercriminals generate through extortion schemes.
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Cybersecurity Compliance in Finance: Why It's Your First Line of Trust, Not Just a Checkbox

Jul 10, 2025 By Foresiet In Foresiet
In financial services, trust is everything. Clients trust you with their data, their money, and their future. But that trust can vanish overnight—especially when a cybersecurity incident exposes weak governance or regulatory non-compliance. In today’s threat landscape, financial institutions are more than just attractive targets for cybercriminals—they’re often the most regulated, most scrutinized, and most unforgiving places for a security slip.
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Navigating DORA: Key Considerations for the Financial Sector

Jul 9, 2025 By Sean Tilley In 11:11 Systems
It is no secret that the financial industry is a serious target for cyber criminals, driving the need for more stringent regulations to help protect these institutions and their employee and customer data. Recent research undertaken by Security Scorecard indicates that in 2023, 78% of European financial institutions experienced a data breach involving a third party. Also, 84% of financial organisations have been affected by a breach involving a fourth party.
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Why Banks Need Regulatory Clarity on Permissionless Blockchains

Jul 8, 2025 By Fireblocks In Fireblocks
Banks and Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) have approached blockchain technology with both excitement and caution in recent years. They have been discouraged by regulators from engaging with permissionless blockchains. Many financial institutions have spent large amounts of time and money developing digital asset capabilities on highly permissioned and proprietary alternatives.
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Stay Private and Connected: How Digital Nomads Use Crypto and Virtual Numbers

Stay Private and Connected: How Digital Nomads Use Crypto and Virtual Numbers

Jul 8, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Digital nomads are always on the move-but staying connected securely and privately across countries is not always easy. Local SIMs can be inconvenient, and using your personal number abroad opens you up to surveillance, spam, or even identity theft. That's where virtual numbers and cryptocurrency come in. Together, they offer location independence, privacy, and borderless communication-perfect for the remote lifestyle.
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Fintech vs. Fincrime: Are Startups Built to Defend or Just to Scale?

Fintech vs. Fincrime: Are Startups Built to Defend or Just to Scale?

Jul 7, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
In the fast-moving world of fintech, growth is the north star. New digital banks, payment platforms, investment apps, and embedded finance startups are launching faster than ever - often with slick user experiences and powerful value propositions. But there's one critical area that doesn't always scale as fast: cybersecurity. As fintech continues to disrupt traditional banking, financial cybercrime is evolving just as rapidly. Sophisticated fraud rings, API exploits, AI-generated phishing, and deepfake identity attacks are no longer future threats - they are already here.
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Rewriting the Rules of Financial Services Content Management

Jun 27, 2025 By John Jones In Egnyte
AI and automation hold massive potential, but they can’t come at the expense of trust and control. That perspective, shared by Jerry Silva of IDC during our Financial Services Summit 2025 keynote, underscores a central tension in financial services: How do we adopt transformational technologies without undermining the very controls that define our industry? For decades, firms have operated under a familiar set of rules about compliance, security, data management, and efficiency.
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Why Mid-Sized Cities Are Reshaping the Commercial Real Estate Map

Why Mid-Sized Cities Are Reshaping the Commercial Real Estate Map

Jun 25, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Look, I'll be straight with you - I used to be one of those guys who wouldn't touch anything outside New York or LA. Maybe some Colorado commercial real estate if I was feeling adventurous, but otherwise it was gateway cities or bust, right? That was the gospel according to every commercial real estate conference I'd ever been to. Then 2020 happened, and everything I thought I knew got turned upside down.
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Building the Foundation for Institutional Crypto Trading

Jun 18, 2025 By Fireblocks In Fireblocks
As institutional trading giants move into crypto, success won’t hinge on trade ideas, but on infrastructure. Adoption has been driven by growing institutional interest: new revenue opportunities, evolving regulation, and the demand for 24/7 trading infrastructure. For sophisticated firms such as multi-strategy hedge funds, high-frequency trading firms, and global asset managers, entering a new asset class isn’t taken lightly.
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